Saturday, August 2, 2025

Dumb Problems Again

 So I was trying to process an image of the splinter galaxy and I had weird flat issues and I knew this was an issue but I couldn't remember why.   After some searching, I came across a thread where someone said the flats have to be longer than 3 seconds!!!!!!   I think I knew this once but have forgotten.   That means the "dark flats" have to be longer than 3 second too (the same time as the flats).  I know the flats I used were closer to 187-ish milliseconds so that's a problem,  Yikes.

 

LONGER THAN 3 SECONDS FOR FLATS!!!

 on ASI294MC !!!!!

 

  That is all.  

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Dumbbell Nebula M27


Fun astronomy adventure with Charles and Geoff.


About 7.5 hours of data from Cold Springs Cabin in late June 2025.  Taken with the Orion 80ED, ZWO ASI294MC, AM5N mount.

One more image coming....